“Quello che non c’è si fa senza” 🛶 https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_dicembre_22/piero-angela-92-anni-lavoro-da-casa-faccio-programmi-tv-4c6d5a16-448b-11eb-850e-8c688b971ab0.shtml praticamente il mio augurio di buone feste🎅🏻

Ma dopotutto, tra gli articoli di una legge e il codice di un programma, non c'è tutta questa differenza, no? E allora perché non mettere le leggi su GitHub e gestirle in modo automatico?

Money quote: "Open Law Library’s mission as a nonprofit is to make all laws as open and accessible as possible. The library’s strategy is to achieve openness by making openness pay off for governments: it uses open, machine-readable laws to build software tools that make codification faster and more accurate. The cool thing about this is that governments can benefit from using Open Law Library’s software even if open data isn’t their highest priority, but in the background they’ll still be publishing their laws in an open and accessible format—everybody wins."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/

Qui invece c'è gente che ne parla da tempo

https://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2012/09/17/standardizing-the-worlds-legislative-information-one-hackathon-at-a-time/

Gagdet tecnologici e curiosità dell’ultimo minuto da regalare a Natale - ci sono anche io, su La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/12/23/news/gagdet-tecnologici-e-curiosita-dell-ultimo-minuto-da-regalare-a-natale-1.39692525

I corsi e i ricorsi della storia: Natale 1918

Videogiochi e spionaggio nella Germania dell'Est

Money quote: "January 6, 1988, was one of those Wednesdays when the old baroque building in Kloster Strasse in East Berlin was teeming with activity. The building was called the "House of Young Talents" (HdjT) at the time, but today its original name, Palais Podewils, has been restored to honor its one-time owner, who was Friedrich the Great's foreign minister. That winter day, 70 to 80 people crowded into a first-floor room, normally the rehearsal space for a local children's choir. The computer club met there every Wednesday, a group of mostly young people, with the lion's share of them around 20 years old, but some as young as 16.

Similar clubs could be found across the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the 1980s and there were around 20 in Berlin alone. But some of those attending this particular meeting at the HdjT had come from far away. And they had good reason. Because even though this was the "Central Clubhouse" of the communist youth organization FDJ, not a single one of the computers sitting on the tables had been manufactured in the GDR. They were all from the West."

https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht

Appleinsider ha scovato un brevetto Apple che si concentra sull’integrazione del multi-utente su iPhone ed iPad: tramite componentistica hardware ad hoc, il multi-utente verrebbe reso compatibile con il Secure Enclave e tutti i vari sistemi di protezione dei dati degli utenti. È inoltre prevista una componente software che gestisca i diversi livelli di accesso al sistema ed alle relative funzioni.

✍🏻 @amiciapple

Sorpresina di Natale! Ecco a voi la quarta puntata di Tilde! Snella, leggera, veloce, da ascoltare mentre siete in coda per andare in bagno. Buon Natale!

https://tilde.show/podcast-04/

Buon Natale a tutti da parte mia!

Casomai non lo sapeste, i Led Zeppelin erano famosi - soprattutto all'inizio - per i loro “prestiti” al confine con il plagio. Spesso dall'altra parte del confine. Adesso salta di nuovo fuori che anche Stairway to Heaven è stata scopiazzata. E il documento legale presentato davanti al giudice per chiedere una sentenza che lo decida, è straordinario nell'uso dei font originali... dei Led Zeppelin

Money quote: "Some courts mandate certain fonts, font-sizing, spacing, and margin size.

Let's hope the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania doesn't, because this complaint is a freaking work of art: font choices, formatting, bright red signature at the end -- it's all just so dang perfect. Take a look for yourself:"

https://blogs.findlaw.com/strategist/2014/11/holy-crap-lawyers-led-zeppelin-complaint-is-a-work-of-art.html

Un vecchio classico, ma a Natale ci vogliono delle solide tradizioni

Fa le foto alle persone che guardano il telefonino, solo che sono foto di gente senza telefonino perché ha chiesto loro di restare fermi mentre gli toglieva l'apparecchio dalle mani. Insomma, fantastico.

Money quote: "The large format portraits are of individuals who appear to be holding personal devices although the devices have been physically removed from the sitter’s hand. They are asked to hold their stare and posture as I remove their device and then I make the exposure. The photographs represent reenactments of scenes that I experience daily."

https://www.removed.social/series/

Se vi siete mai appassionati a Quora, e dovreste perché ci sono un sacco di contenuti interessanti, dovreste anche sapere che la startup ha un'idea di fondo decisamente idiota: tenersi tutto in pancia. Ma proprio tutto.

Money quote: "Quora has:

No public API.
No backup or export tools.
Restricted access to answers without an account.
Blocked scrapers and unofficial APIs, and deleted questions related to scraping on their site."

https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/

Ed eccone un'altro che non risponde alla fondamentale domanda: ma perché?

Money quote: "Today, I decided to self-publish a book in 3 months' time.

I am going to keep on writing all of my drafts every day in public. In the meantime I will develop new tools to allow anyone on this platform to recycle and edit their posts into actual ebooks, and self-publish them for a living. No code needed, the whole publishing process will be eased by the website.

I want 200 Words a Day to prove that it is not only possible for anyone to be a writer, but also to become an author."

https://200wordsaday.com/words/i-am-writing-a-book-in-public-5585c109c5735a98

Viaggio nel tempo a quando ancora si poteva volare: Scraping Ryanair. Ci riusciranno i nostri eroi?

Money quote: "Some friends and I wanted to take a trip out of Venice right before Christmas. We did not want to do a single round trip, though - we wanted to do a multi leg journey. The problem with Ryanair’s site, however, is that it only lets you make a single round trip itinerary. This is great for round trip flights to a single destination, but means that it’s a significant amount of work to cross reference which city goes where. If my flight plan is Airport A -> Airport B -> Airport C -> Airport A there’s no way to check that B -> C -> A is a valid journey without checking both the B -> C segment and the C -> A segment."

https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/ryan-air

Intel vendeva design e tecnologie create per Apple ai concorrenti https://www.macitynet.it/intel-vendeva-design-e-tecnologie-create-per-apple-ai-concorrenti/

Siete già passati da questo articolo sul codice sorgente del vaccino, lo so, ma adesso è disponibile anche in italiano.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/italian-reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Facebook, un algoritmo predice diffusione Covid-19 come con le fake news - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/internet/social-network/2020/12/18/facebook-covid-19-fake-news/

Dal 2021 pagamenti online più sicuri: ma non tutte le aziende sono pronte - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2020/12/29/pagamenti-online-frode-2021-strong-customer-authentication-sca/